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“It’s not a revolution; it is a nightmare of twisted monopolistic privatisation and the idiotic inefficiency that comes alongside that.”
Written about SpaceX’s Starship but could have easily been written about capitalism in general.
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@aral Musk makes more sense when you learn he cares about the appearance of doing something important. That’s why he attaches himself to existing companies or in the case of Neuralink, Solar City, and Boring he takes experimental technology not suited for industry and pretends to be pushing the field forwards.
Our media environment and educational system is woefully inadequate to help people understand this. At least in the US.
@MidniteMikeWrites Musk makes sense when you understand settler colonialism, racism and bigorty, and fascism.
@aral Yes that too. I’m aware of his maternal grandfather who was indited by Canada for being part of a fascist movement and then elected to move to SA. His father also shares these values. The Musk we see today is who he really is and pieces of that have surfaced well before today. Just more critically underreported engagement with Musk’s background.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-world-according-to-elon-musks-grandfather
The size of the fuel leak on Starship heavily implies that these checks either didn’t happen or weren’t done properly. Alternatively, if they were done properly, it shows that SpaceX is cheaping out and isn’t designing their components with a high enough safety factor.
Or simply no one dared to tell the führer that wunderwaffe launch has to be delayed.
@aral
Few tech remarks:
- Starship can land and take off (no need of lunar module)
- Starship is reusable
- The carrying volume of the Starship is huge
And few non-tech once:
- Starship is built with Tesla money, not with your tax money
- Starship is an order of magnitude cheeper (in today’s money)—
Yesterday Falcon 9 had its 450th flight and one of the busters was flying for the 18th time after just 9 days refurbishing. People talked about Falcon as they now talk about the Starship.